Triad Family Mural
Triad Family Mural
Such a simple portrait and yet it tells us so many things. To start off with the basics, let us start with what it actually looks like. It is a simple painting, with mostly neutral colors such as gray and white, showing three figures. One so very prominent in the middle looking toward the person viewing it, and to each side and behind are two other figures, although they are somewhat less defined. There are 4 "stars" or "lights", with the brightest starting in the middle near the bottom, and the other three extend out to the right and up, toward the future (we'll cover that shortly). There is also a prism of 3 sides forming a triangle which begins, with the top tip, between the heads of the left and middle figure and extends to bottom middle of the mural, encompassing the first, bright light.
First, why does the point of the prism fall just between the two faces (left and middle)? Well there are a couple of different possibilities. First, one must understand that history isn't set in stone. You can take the same facts that cover something in the past, put different people with different points of view into recording those facts, and come out with a totally different history than another. This could represent that. The left face could be the past; not very real and not very well defined. The middle, which would be the present, seems more Real, more coherent and more obvious and vivid. But still, left up to interpretation and just a tad faded. The third (to the right) would be the future, also not set in stone. It is faded as well, very open to interpretation and easily changed.
The prism distorts much of the image, which shows how perspective on something makes a great difference on how it is perceived, and much of the time distorting the true image. Emotions, memories, personality, all these things can shape how you view your past, present, and even the shape of the future to come, just as the prism changes the shape of the Triad Family. Why is the future not touched by the prism? Perhaps this is to show that the future has a set path (perhaps the Lyrans can control such things?) or maybe that after all, the future is the only thing not yet distorted by our perspectives and that it still has infinite possibilities.
The four lights- These could represent the Focuses of the Dream. The one of Insight would be in the prism, showing brightest, showing how Insight (or interpretation) can directly affect perspective the most. Or perhaps the brightest light is the source of the other three. That light refracts through the prism into three parts, three weaker parts rather and shows how one can become many (strengthened) when it looks upon the future with hope (the lights extend into that direction). You will also notice that the figures do not have mouths. In keeping with this interpretation we discussed so far, it could mean that many things in this Dream do not have the facilities of voice or sound, or even written word, but they still speak; that is, if you are quiet enough to listen, even without mouths.
There is another, simpler, interpretation. The three represent the mind, body, and soul. They come together here in the Dream, which is represented by the prism (overlying the mural). It shows how we all share something in common and that we all share in the Dream (the prism)..the Dream that binds us all into the family, the Triad family (of the mind , body, and soul).Of course there are many other interpretations. Some Freespirits I've talked with look at the mural in a different way...a painting done long ago by possibly a powerful group who wanted their images etched into history forever, maybe even Dreamwrights. Others think it is just a nice family portrait.
